Improvement in egg-testers



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No. 221,514. Patented Nov. 11,1879.

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WALTER S. BURNHAM, OF ASHTABULA, OHIO.

IM PROVEM ENT IN EGG-TESTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 221,514, datedNovember 11, 1879 application filed July 31, 1879.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, W: S. BURNHAM, of Ashtabula, Ashtabula county, Stateof Ohio, have invented an Improvement in Egg-Testers, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The invention consists in the combination, with a box or vessel having amirror at the bottom, of adisk or plate provided with rim and holes, ashereinafter described.

Figure lot the drawings is a plan view of my tester; Fig. 2, a sectionalelevation; and Fig. 3, a perspective view of the lowerportion.

B represents a circular disk, in which is formed a central aperture, 12thumb and fluger holes b egg-holes b and around which is a rim, 1). D isa triangular box, open at top and large end, slantingor inclineddownwardly from the broad to the sharp end, and provided with apartition, d having the median pivot 61, on which the disk B may beturned. 01

represents a mirror on the bottom and one side of the partition.

The disk B, with the eggs in holes b and arranged in an inclinedposition toward the light, is placed on the pivot 61, so as to be turnedthereon. The operator looking into the mirror from the open end will atonce perceive whether there is any imperfection in the egg, and theoperation can be performed very rapidly.

What I claim as new and of my invention 1s- An egg-tester consisting ofdisk B, box D, and partition having pivot (1, said box being providedwith a mirror, 61 at bottom, as shown and described.

WALTER S. BURNH AM.

Witnessesz" LEWIS Z. ORosBY, H. J. TOPKY.

